This Elizabeth Catlett painting is how I picture Sethe. In this painting, this sharecropper appears lonely and sad. Sethe is the only girl on the farm that she worked on, and throughout the book, she is sad and lonely, oftentimes longing for a companion such as Paul D. This quote talks about Sethe's eyes, referring to them as "two open wells." This painting does a marvelous job of giving the impression that this sharecropper has sad eyes, just as the book describes those of Sethe. This painting shows the sharecropper looking off in the distance for something more, kind of like how Sethe is always thinking about the "what ifs" in her own life.
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